Post by ©DURANMANIA Board Team on Jun 22, 2004 6:38:13 GMT -5
Date of Release
World Premiere 12th June 1967, Odeon
Leicester Square, London.
the story
After a mysterious rocketship seizes manned space missions from Earth’s orbit, suspicions mount and the world superpowers are hurled to the brink of war. Their only hope rests with James Bond, who races to stop the space-jackings’ true mastermind, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Chief of the evil SPECTRE organization, Blofeld is bent on instigating global warfare from his massive headquarters nestled in an inactive volcano. As the countdown begins, Bond joins forces with the luscious Japanese agent Kissy Suzuki and scores of Ninja warriors to mount a daring raid on Blofeld’s lair and prevent a calamitous world war.
Bond’s Women
Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama)
Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi)
Ling (Tsai Chin)
Bond’s Enemies
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence)
Mr. Osato (Teru Shimada)
Helga Brandt (Karin Dor)
Hans (Ron Rich)
Bond’s Allies
Tiger Tanaka (Tetsuro Tamba)
Henderson (Charles Gray)
‘M’ (Bernard Lee)
Miss Moneypenny (Lois Maxwell)
‘Q’ (Desmond Llewelyn)
Bond's Car
Toyota 2000GT (not his, and driven by Aki)
Bond’s Gadget
‘Little Nellie’ autogyro: armed with two
forward-firing synchronised machine guns, forward-firing rocket launchers, rear-firing flame guns, heat-seeking air-to-air missiles, smoke ejectors, aerial mines and helmet camera.
Main Title Music
‘You Only Live Twice’ sung by Nancy Sinatra
End Title Music
‘You Only Live Twice’ sung by Nancy Sinatra
Music Score
John Barry
Production Design
Ken Adam
Second Unit Director
Peter Hunt
Main Titles Designer
Maurice Binder
Screenplay
Roald Dahl
Editor
Thelma Connell
Director
Lewis Gilbert
Producers
*Harry Saltzman & Albert R. Broccoli
The listing shown is contractual for the Eastern Hemisphere and is reversed for the Western Hemisphere
Filming Locations
Pinewood Studios, England
Akime, Japan (fishing village)
Bahamas (underwater scenes)
Gibraltar (Destroyer HMS Tenby (F-65) used for Bond's burial-at-sea)
Hong Kong, China
Japan
Kobe, Japan
Spain (helicopter battle)
Tokyo, Japan
Budget
$9.5 million
Worldwide Box Office
$111.6 million
Worldwide Box Office Gross Income 2002 inflation-adjusted
$603 million
Review: A far cry from Fleming's original novel, this movie started out strong but quickly faltered after Bond's departure from the MI6 submarine. The plot was too far-fetched, considering the history of the films. Blofeld's volcano, although an ingenious concept, was implausible and didn't fit with the tradition of Bond films. The locations were beautiful, as were the women. Although Aki was worthy of Bond, Kissy was another stereotypical Bond girl who added little to the story. The high point of the film was the Little Nellie sequence. Only in a Bond film can a fully functioning, deadly helicopter fit into four suitcases. As for Connery, he is beginning to show his years. As a whole, the movie's replay value is low; it seems to lose something with every viewing.
Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama), James Bond (Sean Connery)
Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasence)
peace & love
SLIM K
